During a walk in the countryside yesterday I came across a football pitch surrounded by woodland. It brought fond memories flooding back to when I used to play football on a similar pitch. If I could turn the clock back, then it would be to play on that pitch once more. My friend said he would change course at the crossroads of life, because he always went the wrong way! He is a bit of a lost soul anyhow!

When I passed my eleven plus but opted to go to the local Comprehensive instead of the (ex) grammar school because my mates were going there. Whilst I have a good life its something I always ponder on.

Also, not passing up a sure thing when I was 17 with a stunningly drop dead gorgeous girl.

I'd choose a different job. I took my job based on the money and while that's no small concern in choosing a job, I feel I could have done just as well in one with less anti social hours, noise and chemicals. A minor grumble really but if I'd considered my options a bit more, I could have made a better choice. Then again, I couldn't turn down the wages.

At college I had a choice between doing science or a business course. I chose business, because the head of the science course sold it badly. Whilst I probably wouldn't be as well off financially, science has always been my primary interest and I love and am amazed by it every day.

I go through that thought process often, usually when I'm out alkone with my dogs.

I regfret taking promotion in 1977. I was happy in the school |I worked in, and where I was living. I went for more dosh and more responsibility in a school I hated the minute I set foot in it on the first bday of term. Ego and pound signs blinded me to what a ###### place it was when I went for the interview.
On the other hand if I hadn't walked out of the place and done my nurse training I wouldn't have met my wife wife, and wouild have missed out on a fulfilling period of my working life.

I've made plenty of huge and regrettable decisions in my past but I would not change them now even if I could. Without those decisions forcing me into some uncomfortable and at the time unwelcome paths, I would have never have:
- met my wife
- gone into my current career
- met the vast majority of my friends
- travelled as widely as I have

and many other things that I now take for granted. I know for sure I wouldn't be who I am now if I hadn't made all of those idiot decisions in the past.

If I could go back in time and re-experience something then it would have to be spending more quality time with family and friends who are no longer alive. I do bitterly regret choosing not to spend time with some people who died either unexpectedly or too young.

Arguing with the forum trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird will **** on the board and strut around like it won anyway

I've made plenty of huge and regrettable decisions in my past but I would not change them now even if I could. Without those decisions forcing me into some uncomfortable and at the time unwelcome paths, I would have never have:- met my wife- gone into my current career- met the vast majority of my friends- travelled as widely as I have

and many other things that I now take for granted. I know for sure I wouldn't be who I am now if I hadn't made all of those idiot decisions in the past.

If I could go back in time and re-experience something then it would have to be spending more quality time with family and friends who are no longer alive. I do bitterly regret choosing not to spend time with some people who died either unexpectedly or too young.

My brother Brian died aged four as a result of a road accident when I was a baby. I often wonder what life would have been like with him around! I have had my ups and downs, but it's all a learning curve. I must admit to enjoying my footballing days hugely, and still relive in my mind the goals scored.

It's just going back to when i was a kid (46 now) and buying a couple of packets of fish n chips crisps after school rugby on a sat,they were in packets that looked like newspaper,can't get them now......easily pleased.....

When I was 17 I was playing for the youth team of a pro football club. I played football because I enjoyed it, not because I had dreams of stardom or glory, so when it all got too serious and everyone around me was obsessing over contracts, etc, I lost all enjoyment in playing. I just wanted to play with my mates, not be immersed in what was a pretty harsh environment. So I walked away.

Now, I'm not saying I'd have played in the Premier League because I'm pretty certain I wouldn't have got that far. But I could have had a good career out of it, and when I see some of my contemporaries (Marlon Harewood and Jason Roberts for example) I do get a twinge of regret.

Then again, as said by others on here, if I'd continued with the football I wouldn't have met my best mate and he wouldn't have introduced me to my mrs. So.... swings and roundabouts, I suppose.

"Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart."
Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959

I have and continue to make bad choices about lots of things. Despite this I've learnt not to beat myself up too badly about it and try, often unsuccessfully, to learn from it.
On the other hand, I cringe when I think of the occasions when I've been not been very nice to other people.

"At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right."